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The New Klezmer Quintet

The New Klezmer Quintet is a traditional Klezmer Band originally from the Washington DC area. The group is also a Neo Klezmer ensemble performing  Klezmer Music while incorporating elements of Modern Israeli Folk Music, Ladino,   Jazz, Swing, Latin Music and Rock and Roll styles. The band was formed in 2001 at the Lansing Michigan Jazz Festival when a group of independent conservatory trained professional musicians with their own bands came together to jam. The New Klezmer Quintet has an older sister band called The Kol Haruach Orchestra which plays private events, while the main band plays strictly concert venues. Kol Haruach means voice of the spirit which embodies the groups improvisational and audience pleasing performance style.

Current Members of the group are Brian Choper-Band Manager and Drummer, Fred Jacobitz-Clarinet and Saxophone, Daniel Rozas-Clarinet and Saxophone, Vladamir Gamarnik-Violin, Harry Appelman-Piano and Keyboard, Ephriam Wolfolk-Bass

The group is rising to become one the most highly esteemed Klezmer Bands in the country. According to agents, between our standards and our original music, the band is known to draw a multi-ethnic crowd of between 1000 - 1500 people per concert; easily selling out major shows. The group has performed at the Millennium Stage at The Kennedy Center, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Strathmore Music Hall in Bethesda Md, {The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian] and benefit concerts at local synogogues. Guest artist's with the group have included accomplished cantors Phil Greenfield and Ramon Tasat.

The New Klezmer Quintet has the flexibility to sound like a Klezmer Band from the "old county" evoking images of the Jewish shtetl, a Swing band tributing Duke Ellington, or a Rock Band covering Santana and The Village People. Most of all the group of creative artists love to write their own tunes that combine these various styles to make a brand new sound for todays audiences; sometimes called Klezmer-Rock.

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official website 1

official website 2

Discography
2004-In the Beginning...Bereshit; Entertainment Connection

2005-Kol Haruach-Live in Concert;Klezmer and Jazz-Together at Last; Entertainment Connection

2008-"Unexpected Joy"-The New Klezmer Quintet-Live in Concert w/ Ramon Tasat; Entertainment Connection